THE 



SNOWY OWL. 



A STRIPED VARIETY. 



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Generic Character. 



Bill crooked (not furnilhed with a cere). 

 Nofiri/s covered with recumbent briftly feathers, 

 Head large : Ears and Eyes large. 

 Tongue bifid. 



Specific Character, &c. • 



HORNLESS WHITE OWL, marked with 

 diftant lunated fpots. 



SNOWY OWL. 



Lath, l. p. 132. 



GREAT WHITE OWL. 



Edwards 2. pi. 61. 



The bird here figured is a moft curious and beauti- 

 ful variety of the great Snow-white Owl ; a fpecies 

 Which is a native both of the northern parts of Europe 

 and of America, and in fize is equal to the great 

 Eagle-Owl. In its common or general ftate it is 

 of a fnowy whitenefs, with here and there a few 

 fmall fcattered crefcent-fhaped fpots of blackifh 

 brown ; but the fpecimen now reprefented is fpotted 

 all over the upper fur face with numerous marks of 



brown, 



